First Links — 4.18.13

Xerxes and the Jewish Diaspora
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, Preachers’ Institute

Tongue Tied
Br. Tomás Martín Rosado O.P., Dominicana

Atheist Church: An Exercise in Mimicry
Anthony Sacramone, Strange Herring

Past Perfect
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Democracy

Evelyn Waugh, Catholic Optimist
Micah Mattix, National Review

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

The Church in the Age of Therapy

Matthew Loftus

In 1966, Philip Rieff wrote in The Triumph of the Therapeutic that “Religious man was born to…

Canada’s Deadliest Blind Spot

Anna Farrow

On September 20, the Daily Mail ran a story with the provocative headline, “Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother…

The Faithful Joy of Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen

Mike Aquilina

Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore…